• Block Diagram of Computer, Functioning of Computer,
• Characteristics Computer Memory: Primary & Secondary
• Types of Primary Memory. Number System: Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal number systems and their Intercoversion, ASCII codes

• Input Devices: Keyboard Locator Device: Mouse, Joy Stick Pick Device: Light Pen, Touch Screen
• Scanning: MICR, OCR, OMR, Barcode Reader. Vision Capturing: Webcam, Digital Camera Output Devices: VDU, Printer : Dot Matrix, Laser
• Projector. Storage Device: Hard Disk, Optical Disk, Blu Ray Disk and Pen Drive

• Operating System, Classification of Operating System on the basis of task (Single User Single Task, Single User Multiple Task, and Multi-User Multiple Task), Features of Windows
• Desktop and Windows Explorer. Control Panel: Administrative Tools – Date and Time, Display, Mouse, Programs and Features. Usage of Recycle Bin Windows Accessories: Calculator, Notepad, Paint, Disk Cleanup

• Computer Communication, Need for Networks, Communication Device, Types of NetworkLAN, WAN, MAN, Concept of Network Topology
• Types of Topologies and its Advantages and Limitations Internet: Basic Internet terms, Internet Addressing, Detail about E-mail, Search Engine
• Social and Ethical Issues, E-learning. Open Source Terminologies: Open Source Software, Freeware, Shareware, Proprietary Software

Topics added in Gondwana University Syllabus

• Machine Language, Assembly Language, High Level Language. Translators: Compiler, Interpreter and Assembler
• The Compilation Process, Linker, Loader, Study of HLL, Characteristics of Good Language

• Problem Analysis, Process Analysis, Conceptual Development of Solution. Development Tools
• Algorithm: Advantage and Disadvantage of Algorithm, Complexity of Algorithm Flowcharts: Advantage and Disadvantage of Flowchart.

C-Character Set and Keyboards, Constants and Variables, Data types, Type Casting, Operators and Expressions – Arithmetic, Relational, Logical Assignment, Increment and Decrement Operator, Updating Assignment, Conditional Operator, Hierarchy of Operators, Input and Output statements in C.

• Conditional and Looping Statements Conditional Statement: if-else, nested if, else-if ladder, switch
• ternary Operator Looping Statement: for loop, while and do- while loop, Comma Operator and Use of break, continue and goto statements

• The Tudor Monarchy, The End of Feudalism, The Renaissance- Humanism, Individualism, Exploration and Discovery, The Reformation, The Rise of English Drama
• Miracle and Morality Plays, Interludes, Classical Influences on Drama, The First Experiments, Origin of the English Theatre, The University Wits, Sonnets and Lyrics in the 16th century, Aphoristic Essays

• Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to “The Canterbury Tales”
• Francis Bacon: Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Friendship, Of Marriage and Single Life

William Shakespeare: Hamlet

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

• The Restoration of the Monarchy and the Restoration of the Public Theatre in England; Restoration Comedy, Comedy of Manners; Restoration Tragedy; Satire in Verse; The Mock Heroic
• Satire in Prose; Glorious Revolution; Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment; The Periodical Essays; Critical Essays; The Art of Biography; The Transition Poets, The Rise of the English Novel, The Epistolary Novel, The Picaresque Novel,
• The Novel of Sentiment; The Gothic Novel.

• John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
• Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

• William Congreve: The Way of the World
• Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

• Jonathan Swift: The Battle of the Books
• Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

• Romantic Movement: Precursors of the movement; concepts of nature, reason and imagination
• factors influencing the movement, the writing of the Lyrical Ballads; French Revolution
• reactions to French Revolution- enthusiasm and revulsion; reaction to the 18th century literary tradition; the growth of literary criticism; the theory of poetic diction; Pantheism; Willing suspension of disbelief, Personal Essay

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

• The Victorian Temper; the establishment of the empire; the theory of evolution; Industrial Revolution
• Realism, Naturalism, Conflict between Science and Religion; faith and doubt; Spirit of Compromise; the Oxford Movement, Evangelicalism, Factory Acts, Urbanisation; the Utilitarianism
• Chartism, the belief in progress; the growth of socialist movement; the Working Class Movement; the Suffragette Movement; Pre-Raphaelite Movement; Art for Art’s sake; Women Writings.

• Alfred Tennyson: The Lotus Eaters, Ulysses
• Robert Browning: A Grammarian’s Funeral, Andrea Del Sarto
• Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis

• Thomas Carlyle: Hero as a Poet
• John Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies

• Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
• Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles